1986 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1986.
- April 29 – A major fire at Los Angeles Public Library caused by arson destroys 400,000 volumes.[1]
- July 21 – Michael Grade, Controller of BBC1, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.[2]
- September 29 – Bloomsbury Publishing is set up in London by Nigel Newton.[3]
- October 9 – The Phantom of the Opera, having been the longest running Broadway show ever, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
- December 19 – The Soviet dissident author Andrei Sakharov is allowed to return to Moscow after six years' internal exile.
New books
Fiction
- Kingsley Amis – The Old Devils
- V. C. Andrews – Garden of Shadows
- Piers Anthony – Ghost
- Jeffrey Archer – A Matter of Honour
- James Axler – Pilgrimage to Hell and Red Holocaust
- Iain Banks – The Bridge
- Thomas Bernhard – Extinction
- Orson Scott Card – Speaker for the Dead
- Tom Clancy – Red Storm Rising
- Arthur C. Clarke – The Songs of Distant Earth[4]
- James Clavell – Whirlwind
- Jackie Collins – Hollywood Husbands
- Pat Conroy – The Prince of Tides
- Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Regiment
- Marguerite Duras – Blue Eyes, Black Hair
- James Ellroy – Silent Terror
- Peter Fox – Downtime
- John Gardner – Nobody Lives For Ever
- Peter Handke – Repetition
- Ernest Hemingway - The Garden of Eden
- Carl Hiaasen – Tourist Season
- Kazuo Ishiguro – An Artist of the Floating World
- Brian Jacques – Redwall
- Stephen King – It
- Judith Krantz – I'll Take Manhattan
- Ágota Kristóf – The Notebook
- Louis L'Amour – Last of the Breed
- Joe R. Lansdale – Dead in the West
- John le Carré – A Perfect Spy
- David Leavitt – The Lost Language of Cranes
- Tanith Lee – Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee
- Gordon Lish – Dear Mr. Capote
- H. P. Lovecraft – Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (corrected edition)
- Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Supremacy
- Amin Maalouf – Leo Africanus
- Allan Massie – Augustus (first in the Roman series)
- Frank Miller – Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (graphic novel)
- Robert Munsch – Love You Forever
- Patrick O'Brian – The Reverse of the Medal
- Ellis Peters
- Terry Pratchett – The Light Fantastic
- Reynolds Price – Kate Vaiden
- Jean Raspail – Who Will Remember the People...
- Idries Shah – Kara Kush
- Danielle Steel – Wanderlust
- Peter Taylor – A Summons to Memphis
- James Tiptree, Jr. – Tales of the Quintana Roo
- Vladimir Voinovich – Moscow 2042[6]
- Roger Zelazny – Blood of Amber
Children and young people
- Janet and Allan Ahlberg – The Jolly Postman
- Chris Van Allsburg – The Stranger
- Tony Bradman – Dilly the Dinosaur (first in the eponymous series of 22 books)
- Steven Brust (with Alan Lee) – Brokedown Palace
- Robert J. Burch – Queenie Peavy
- Joy Cowley
- (with Jan van der Voo) – Turnips For Dinner
- (with Martin Bailey) – The King's Pudding
- Crescent Dragonwagon – Half a Moon and One Whole Star
- Jill Eggleton (with Kelvin Hawley) – Cat and Mouse
- Berniece T. Hiser – The Adventure of Charlie and His Wheat-Straw Hat
- Diana Wynne Jones – Howl's Moving Castle
- Michael de Larrabeiti
- Arnold Lobel – The Random House Book of Mother Goose (in verse)
- Patricia McKissack – Flossie & the Fox
- Robert Munsch – Love You Forever
- Jill Murphy – Five Minutes' Peace (first in The Large Family series)
- Jenny Nimmo – The Snow Spider (first in The Magician Trilogy)
- Bill Peet – Zella, Zack, and Zodiac
- Claude Ponti – Adele's Album
- Alison Prince – The Type One Super Robot
- Gillian Rubinstein – Space Demons
Drama
- Caryl Churchill and David Lan – A Mouthful of Birds[7]
- Nick Darke – The Dead Monkey
- Tomson Highway – The Rez Sisters
- Chinu Modi – Ashwamedh
- Willy Russell – Shirley Valentine[8]
- Arvo Salo – Vallan miehet[9]
- Tom Stoppard – Dalliance (based on a work by Arthur Schnitzler)
Poetry
- Kama Sywor Kamanda – Chants de brumes (Songs of twilight)
Non-fiction
- Dave Stieb (with Kevin Boland) - Tomorrow I'll be Perfect
- Martin Amis – The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America
- Bernard Bailyn – Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
- Frank Barlow – Thomas Becket
- Marjorie Chibnall – Anglo-Norman England 1066–1166
- Richard Dawkins – The Blind Watchmaker
- Karlheinz Deschner – Kriminalgeschichte des Christentums (Criminal History of Christianity)
- Adrian Edmondson et al. – How to be a Complete Bastard
- Sita Ram Goel – History of Hindu–Christian Encounters, AD 304 to 1996
- Temple Grandin (with Margaret Scariano) – Emergence: Labeled Autistic
- Patience Gray – Honey from a Weed (cookery)
- Robert Irwin – The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The Early Mamlúk Sultanate 1250–1382
- Kumari Jayawardena – Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
- Mark Mathabane – Kaffir Boy
- Farley Mowat – My Discovery of America
- Harvey Pekar – American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar (graphic autobiography)
- Marc Reisner – Cadillac Desert
- Richard Rhodes – The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Jonathan Riley-Smith – The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
- Roger Scruton – Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation
- Art Spiegelman – Maus: A Survivor's Tale (I: My Father Bleeds History) (graphic biography/autobiography)
- Jean Vercoutter – The Search for Ancient Egypt
- Mary Wilson – Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme
Births
- January 24 - Aimee Carter, American young-adult fiction writer
- June 6 - Rachelle Dekker, American science-fiction writer
- July 3 – Chris Bush, English playwright, artistic director and comedian
- unknown dates
- Caroline Bird, English poet and dramatist[10]
- Chigozie Obioma, Nigerian novelist
